Scientists ‘ambushed by gang of aggressive beastly monkeys’ opened fire in panic

Scientists claim they were forced to reach for their guns and open fire after a bloodthirsty troop of 5ft tall, monkey-like creatures that ambushed them in Asia.

Entomologist George Brooks and Physician George Moore were travelling along the popular pilgrim route of the Gosainkunda Pass in Nepal when a large male beast led a charge of up to seven angry apes.

According to the pair's account, they had become separated from their porters who were further back along the trail as they trekked to Kathmandu.

The remote path tucked away in the Himalayas passes Gosainkunda Lake which Hindu and Buddhist visitors believe was formed when Shiva pierced a glacier with his trident to obtain water after swallowing a poison that threatened to destroy the world.

For all its popularity since the late 19th century, some visitors claim to have encountered the legendary Yeti or another mystery species in the form of a giant ferocious monkey locals call Kra-Dhan.

Whatever it was spooked hikers have seen on their travels, it was certainly enough to leave them terrified and relieved to have escaped unharmed.

Moore detailed his and Brooks' harrowing experience in 1953 in an article titled “I Met the Abominable Snowman” in the May 1957 issue of Sports Afield.

He said: "A hideous face thrust apart the wildly thrashing leaves and gaped at us. It was a face that seemed to extend from ear to ear and long, yellowish teeth were chattering.

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"But those eyes, beady, yellow eyes that stared at us with obvious demoniacal cunning and anger. That face!!!… A hand pushed through the leaves. Then a quick movement and a shoulder… As the creature emerged through the dark leaves, we strained to make out his form…The creature was about 5 feet tall, half crouching on two thin hairy legs, leering at us in undisguised fury."

Moore continued: "Claws or hands seemed dark, perhaps black, while his bedraggled, hairy body was grey and thin. It shuffled along with a stoop the way a Neolithic caveman might have walked. Well-built and sinewy, it could prove to be the most formidable opponent. Teeth bared, it snarled like an animal.

"Two long fangs protruded from its upper lip… Suddenly, a sharp flicking movement behind it caught our eyes, a tail…Other figures were approaching now from several directions.

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"We could make out 6 or 7 of them through the mist. One appeared to be carrying a baby around its neck. They seemed to mean business as they growled at each other. The one that had pushed through the foliage first was the leader. There was little question as to his authority as he led the attack…”

The frightened pair say they desperately reached for their guns which they fired a few times each over the creatures' heads to scare them off.

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Beasts of the World author Andy McGrath suggests the most likely culprit to have launched the attack is a troop of giant mountain macaque, which may have been native to eastern Tibet.

The Tibetan macaque is the largest macaque species and inhabits the mountainous subtropical forests of eastern Tibet and east-central China but still only stands at little over 2ft.

Andy says what Brooks and Moore saw might have been the result of insular gigantism, wherein the pressure of an isolated and limited environment caused a small population of mountain macaque to evolve into larger and more aggressive monkeys.

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